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[ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Gallagher: Keep him. The Pacers would be insane to trade someone who will make your already-successful team that much better. Indiana's success comes from its great defense, but where it really struggles is scoring, and that's the exact thing that Granger brings to the table.

Gutierrez: Trade him. This might be the toughest call of them all. The Pacers shoot 42 percent, so some help from Granger, an established scorer, can only help. But Paul George is rising in Granger's absence, meaning re-adding the injured Granger might just be counterproductive.

Foster: Keep him. Selling at the lowest point of value is never a good idea. It's also not absurd to think the Pacers can truly contend for a title with Granger providing the missing scoring punch to supplement the league's stingiest defense. Granger isn't worth his contract, but he fits the bill for what Indiana currently needs most.

Mason: Keep him. Indiana needs shooting, and he's a shooter. If he is a bad fit when he comes back from injury, you can move him in the offseason when he will have an expiring contract.

Schwartz: Keep him. The Pacers possess the league's most efficient defense as well as its second-least efficient offense after playing the entire season thus far without Granger. They desperately need his scoring punch to compete in the East, and they may not get full value for him anyway since he has been hurt all season.

Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

For the benefit of the team and to avoid the complete implosion his return will bring, I except Paul, West and Hill to be driving Granger out to some New Castle woods to bury him in a shallow grave ala Goodfellas.

Danny to Paul at practice - "I said go home and get your shinebox."

2 hours later they are at Hill's grandmothers place getting supplies before heading out.

And sure for the short term the team is saved, but once Larry finds out that Paul took out a made guy like Granger it's only a matter of time before the whole crew turns on itself and the team is blown up (literally).

Freaking great article and research by Abbot with Thorpe's assistance.

One thing I've thought all year was that I was seeing a lot more physical defense being allowed than normal. I've seen games where West is just mugged, and to be fair I've seen tons of plays by Roy that would have been called in year's past even though it's the kind of play I like to see allowed (defending your space only, not going into the player).

This year you'd also have to add oversight regarding flops and an intentional attempt to ignore flops by the refs. You have to think that's part of it as well.

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Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Danny brings exactly what this team is in desperate need of to contend (scoring), puts Gerald Green in a suit, and assuming a healthy return, will have great value this summer as an above average starter on an expiring deal. Why would you trade him now? Makes zero sense unless you get a no-brainer type of offer.

Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Speculation on trading Danny is a bit ridiculous right now. Unless somebody goes Godfather on the Pacers and makes them an offer they can't refuse, they might as well see how well he plays within this newest Frank Vogel system. I personally love the idea of incredible length and overall size on defense and the concept of dual swingmen taking over the wings in offense.

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Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Freaking great article and research by Abbot with Thorpe's assistance.

One thing I've thought all year was that I was seeing a lot more physical defense being allowed than normal. I've seen games where West is just mugged, and to be fair I've seen tons of plays by Roy that would have been called in year's past even though it's the kind of play I like to see allowed (defending your space only, not going into the player).

This year you'd also have to add oversight regarding flops and an intentional attempt to ignore flops by the refs. You have to think that's part of it as well.

Well, I've still seen some ticky tack fouls here and there I don't like. But if you say it's not as bad this year, then I'm happy. Because the pass few years has been some of the woosiest basketball I've ever watched.

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Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Like I said, he wasn't one of them. He hasn't scored over 20 for a while and he never will again....

Define "in a while".

As we all know he has not played at all this season.

In his previous season he scored 18.7 PPG. In a season that the Pacers had 5 other players averaging more than 10 PPG (Roy, West, PG, DC and Leandro) and 2 others averaging more than 9 PPG (GH and Tyler Hansbrough).

In the 10 - 11 season he did average more than 20 PPG. 20.5 PPG, to be precise. In this season he had 4 players averaging more than 10 PPG (DC, Roy, Dunleavy and Tyler) and 1 player averaging more than 9 (Brandon Rush).

The last time that Paul Pierce scored more than 20 PPG was the 08-09 season. Why? Because he didn't need to. He had Ray Allen scoring 16.3 PPG, KG scoring 14.3 PPG, Rondo scoring 13.7 PPG and Perkins scoring 10.1 PPG. And Rasheed was at 9 PPG of the bench.

Simply put, when you have enough options in your team you don't need to score 20 points night in and night out.

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Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

Trade him before the Trade Deadline ONLY if the other Team is SIGNIFICANTLY overpaying for him while preserving the Team's ability to make a deep Playoff run this season...otherwise....keep him and then look to trade him in the summer offseason.

Over the last 50 games of last season
19.5 points on 15.1 shots
.576 TS%
.519 eFG%

Maybe I'm crazy but it seems to me that his efficiency declined when he started to get more offense from ISO and less from spotting up and coming off of screens. The transition to more iso happened when he didn't have a productive shooting guard next to him, and his first season with a productive shooting guard that gets assists had almost exactly the same production as the last time he took 15.1 shots per game.

Re: [ESPN] Keep Him or Trade Him? - Danny Granger

In his previous season he scored 18.7 PPG. In a season that the Pacers had 5 other players averaging more than 10 PPG (Roy, West, PG, DC and Leandro) and 2 others averaging more than 9 PPG (GH and Tyler Hansbrough).

In the 10 - 11 season he did average more than 20 PPG. 20.5 PPG, to be precise. In this season he had 4 players averaging more than 10 PPG (DC, Roy, Dunleavy and Tyler) and 1 player averaging more than 9 (Brandon Rush).

The last time that Paul Pierce scored more than 20 PPG was the 08-09 season. Why? Because he didn't need to. He had Ray Allen scoring 16.3 PPG, KG scoring 14.3 PPG, Rondo scoring 13.7 PPG and Perkins scoring 10.1 PPG. And Rasheed was at 9 PPG of the bench.

Simply put, when you have enough options in your team you don't need to score 20 points night in and night out.

Don't waste your time arguing with him. And quit quoting people I have on ignore!

As for the topic of discussion here, this is the worst time in his career to trade Danny. We are legitimate contenders with his scoring and he must have ZERO value right now because no one knows what that knee has in store.